Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had abused their historic function as guiding intelligence of the German people by subjecting it to that evil thing-Nazi totalitarianism. The Frankenstein they had helped to power, their police spy in the absurd trench coat, Adolf Hitler, had at last split their solid ranks...
Ciano was the last to testify. He did not behave well. Ciano called it "absolutely absurd that we ... wanted to ruin the Duce, since we would be buried in the ruin." But he admitted that after the Council meeting he had gone to Marshal Badoglio, asked for a passport for himself, his wife Edda and their children. Prince Otto von Bismarck, Counselor of the German Embassy and a close friend, promised to put a plane at Ciano's disposal. Ciano was spirited into the plane, but it flew to Germany, not to Spain as he intended. Later Edda...
...good play, fissured with faults, encrusted with crudities, it was yet vivid theater. It had also, along with the sprawl, some of the scope of a novel. Its characters did too much and sometimes talked too fancily, but-escaping the prison of a rigid stage technique-they had an absurd, audacious vitality. Best of all, perhaps, Playwright Yordan cared about his people, and in his fumbling way saw life a little as greater writers have seen it-not just as a problem or struggle, but as a changing and clouded dream...
Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes in the respective roles of Katherine and David succeed in making this rather absurd lovers' quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen...
...Unswayed." Francis Biddle called the report "absurd." Then, after several hours' thought, he issued a statement attacking Pat McCarran's unwillingness to hear any witnesses...